Traditional Japanese Miso Soup
As I understand it, there is no one correct recipe for this soup, you can just add what you like - so I have sometimes added bean sprouts, shittake mushrooms, and/or about 2 tsp of sake to the following. When I first used this recipe, I though ... [... more]
International Vegetarian Union |
The Roots of Japanese Gardens
The influence of Chinese gardens on early Japanese gardens, and some basic differences between traditional Japanese and Chinese gardens. This article is about the influence of Chinese gardens on early Japanese gardens, and how early Japanese ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Fumiko Y. Yamamoto
Humor has long been a lively element in traditional Japanese culture. Through parody, satire, personification, and wit, Japanese humor has a playful, subtle, and incongruous nature. Here, the benign and gentle quality of Japanese humor is ... [... more]
Random House |
Akira Y. Yamamoto
Humor has long been a lively element in traditional Japanese culture. Through parody, satire, personification, and wit, Japanese humor has a playful, subtle, and incongruous nature. Here, the benign and gentle quality of Japanese humor is ... [... more]
Random House |
Hideyuki Oka
Traditional Japanese packaging is an art form that applies sophisticated design and natural aesthetics to simple objects. In this elegant presentation of the baskets, boxes, wrappers, and containers that were used in ordinary, day-to-day life, we ... [... more]
Random House |
Temari: A Traditional Japanese Embroidery Technique
 From Amazon.com: The ancient Japanese art of temari yields colorful embroidered spheres of astonishingly complex-looking geometric designs. Yet the materials and the basic principles are really pretty simple: wadded-up batting or a pair of pantyhose is [... more]
CDN$19.95
Amazon CA |
Traditional Japanese Theater: An Anthology of Plays
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 895.62008 EAN: 9780231108737 Edition: Reissue ISBN: 0231108737 Number Of Pages: 464 Publication Date: 1999-04 [... more]
CDN$30.73
Amazon CA |
Traditional Japanese Acupuncture: Fundamentals of ...
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 615.8920952 EAN: 9780967303444 ISBN: 0967303443 Number Of Pages: 364 Publication Date: 2004-03 [... more]
CDN$40.08
Amazon CA |
Native Plants
Traditional Japanese gardens have a lot to teach us about designing with native plants. It has become increasingly fashionable to create gardens in which only native plants are grown. To many people this sort of garden seems a bit strange, if you ... [... more]
Suite101 |
Traditional Japanese Music and Musical Instruments
WOW! WHAT A BOOK!: If you dig traditional Japanese music, BUY THIS BOOK! It is very clearly and systematically written, and the NON-musician (like me!) misses very little. Accompanying CD is really neato (GOOD SOUND!), a large number of short tracks [... more]
CDN$60.95
Amazon CA |
Traditional Japanese Crest Designs
Traditional Japanese Crest Designs: A nice but short selection. Well laid out by types. I have bought other books with 5 times more designs. A good reference for the genre with over 500 crests.: 45 pages with about 12 crests per page make this book a [... more]
CDN$7.95
Amazon CA |
Traditional Japanese Stencil Designs
the very best of Japanese textile graphics: As a previous reviewer has noted, Clarence Hornung's "Traditional Japanese Stencil Designs" is not the book to purchase if you are seeking inspiration for tattoos. It is, however, of exceptional value [... more]
CDN$14.95
Amazon CA |
